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This process, of course, is applicable to both forms of relating the 24 questions and answers of the chapter Recapitulation to the matrix. In one form (presented in Volume 3) the first eight subjects are regarded as subtitles for the four rows and the four columns of the matrix. In the other form (presented in Volume 5) a requirement exists for having 24 subjects identified to cover the duality that exists in the lower two rows, according to the dual functionality of the rows as they pertain to the confrontational structure in one instant, or to the reflective structure in another. If all aspects are to be covered simultaneously, 24 elements are required, which we find supplied in the chapter Recapitulation. Which of the two forms you choose is your own business, and the choice may change as the scientific development opens new vistas that will obsolete one or the other, or put both into a different light, by which both become new.
The process of taking ownership, however, is primarily focused onto the confrontational structure where the Christ and Christ Science confront all errors in human thought. In this context Christian Science reflects the Christ Science and establishes a healing platform for humanity.
The sphere of this deep reaching confrontation is totally owned by humanity. God cannot own such a process, because God, infinite Mind, being focused on Truth, can have no conceptual awareness of error that it would confront. There is no error in Truth. The confrontational structure is a feature of the human domain in which human errors are confronted with discovered truths. This domain is owned by humanity, and the confrontation that goes on there must cover every aspect of the human scene, from politics to mythologies, from religion to absolute Science. This confrontation gets rid of the 'crap' in human thought, the mental garbage that blocks the light. The confrontation is a house cleaning process.
The confrontational structure that defines this process includes the seven days of creation, of Genesis 1, that describes the process of discovery of reality: of letting in the 'light;' of discovering the 'firmament;' of discovering the nature of man in the image of God; of discovering the essential completeness of infinity. The discovery process is an essential part of the confrontational structure. These new discoveries, primarily discoveries in Christ Science, prompts one to take the garbage out of human affairs.
The reflective structure, however, which comes into play when the confrontational structure is superseded, when truth becomes established, is not owned by humanity. Here the ownership rests with God. Here, a new dimension begins: the fourth dimension, of Spirit. When humanity takes full ownership of its house and cleans out the rubbish, then the harmonies and riches of the divine reality will be found reflected in every aspect of human existence. In this structure, the first row, representing the absolute unmanifest, finds its full manifest in the second row, and these two upper rows are fully mirrored in the lower half of the reflective structure where Christian Science, the arbiter of truth, has its full manifest in Christianity. Human thought does not own this process. This process is ordered by divine Principle which human thought can neither mock with perversion or human will, nor evade the consequences. This process is owned by God, it reflects reality.
In this fourth dimension, of Spirit, certain incongruities are resolved that appear as a puzzlement on a lower level. For example, in the Mary Baker Eddy's Glossary of the textbook, we find the dual definition of the term "Burial." If this definition is understood from a higher standpoint than mechanical compliance, or even conceptual compliance, but is taken through one's ownership of the problem, through the process of discovery to a level where a higher point of reference is applied, then the definition becomes fundamentally changed. Against this higher point of reference the definition of "burial" comes to light as a description of the natural manifest in human terms, of a higher unmanifest which may be described as divine Principle, reflecting infinite Spirit. Now, if this concept is downing in thought, the dual definition of the term describes two essential aspects that result from the same process, but not a fundamental duality that would split the definition apart as a mechanical compliance to crudely perceived rules would demand.
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